Does this get your nut off?
Posted on 05/28/2010 8:43:15 PM PDT by SamAdams76
OK, so I'm at the Dunkin Donuts this morning, it's a rather cool spring morning, about 50 degrees. I can see my breath in the air! Yet, every woman in the Dunkin Donuts were in flip-flops!
Now everywhere I go these days, it seems that the women are wearing flip-flops instead of regular shoes. Why is that?
I just don't get the appeal of wearing flip flops. I can understand wearing them at the beach. And when I was in Marine boot camp (Parris Island), we were issued a pair to wear to the shower. But anywhere other then the beach or the shower, I'm just not getting it. Why would you want to wear flip-flops instead of regular shoes?
Now get this, I go walking with the dog every morning for about 4 miles. Think I could do that in flip-flops? Think again. Nothing but hard-soled footwear for me. I wear hiking boots maybe 9 months out of the year. During the summer, I might switch to sneakers (New Balance) or maybe some Docksider boat shoes. But no flip-flops for me.
I'd like to see some woman follow me into the woods in flip-flops when I go hiking. Good luck with that. Try hiking Mt. Washington in a pair of flip-flops. You won't think flip-flops are so swell when you try that.
I'm not quite sure when women in flip-flops became the "in" thing. Back when I was younger, you just didn't see flip flops except maybe at the beach or in the shower like I mentioned before. Suddenly, all these women decide that this is what they want to wear. You even see woman in dresses with flip-flops. What is up with that? It's like if I wore a suit with sandals. It would be ridiculous. But for women, they seem to get away with wearing flip-flops with their business attire.
Also, isn't it uncomfortable to go walking around in flip-flops? Don't you feel vulnerable walking around in public with flip-flops? What if a nuclear bomb went off and you had to run for the hills? Wouldn't get very far in a pair of flip-flops. What if somebody with heavy boots was to stomp on your toes? If you were wearing regular shoes, not such a big deal. In flip flops, it's going to leave a mark.
Somebody, hopefully, will explain this flip-flop thing to me. I would like to understand. Thank you and good night.
LOL! Guitly as charged! Every spring I do this to break my feet in so I don't get blisters right away. By mid-May the socks are gone.
In that case, why not wear sandals or open-toe “flats”?
why do men wear shorts in the middle of winter in the north?....
I’m not a woman, but I would think flip flops would be very easy to put on (and take off if you’re in a culture where folks leave their shoes at the door) and they are also cheap.
And do these women have fancy manicured and polished toe nails? Unless they wear something like a flip flop, nobody’s going to see all the brightly colored nails. In that case, it’s the same reason a body builder wears a tank top—to show off all that hard work.
If you are a straight male, you know that the key to understanding women is in understanding their fashion choices, most particularly their shoes, and — you don’t care. Why would any sensible person wear spiked heels? A mystery, wrapped in an enigma. The feminine mystique.
The big question is why do so many people wear deck shoes or tennis shoes?
And T-shirts....What’s up with those?
IIRC, Jimmy Buffet had a song about flip-flops, and pop-tops, and maybe alcohol was a factor. Oh, and a woman was to blame.
Now, where did I put that shaker of salt.....
So their butts don’t freeze ?
Does this get your nut off?
Like that picture above, those toes are fat as sausages, why would a woman want to let anyone see those?
Speaking as a non-woman, I don’t care for the thing between the toes on flip-flops. But sandals or bare feet? Whenever possible. When temperature allows, and their are no spinning blades or other hazards eminent, let those feet (and legs) free.
Do they smell while indoors and do they stain the carpet?
So they won’t be pregnant and barefooted.
We wear them because our feet hurt. We have to wear dress-up, pointy-toed shoes and pantyhose during the workweek, and when we aren’t on duty it’s nice to not be in pain. Flip-flops are the closest we can get to being barefoot. You try walking around on your toes for 40 or 50 hours a week and you’ll want to go barefoot, too.
I love to dress with some formality, but I’m sitting here typing this wearing a Ralph Lauren dress and the fantastically comfortable J. Crew thick-soled flip-flops my daughter bought me for my last birthday. My feet feel good for a change.
There may be some other shoes that are comfortable too—my Topsiders and Bass loafers, my Ariat paddock boots and Vogel field boots are fine, too. But none of them all the freedom of having my feet squish out in all directions as the flip-flops do. Bliss!
I am with you on this. I do not even own flip flops or sandals and do not understand their appeal.
President Bush poses with the Northwestern University women's lacrosse team in 2005.
They kind of get a rhythm off of them that acts almost sort of like a pacifier to club dancing.
As you know, alcohol, dancing, and loud mind numbing music form the basis of modern foreplay.
Using flip flops, this is a pacifier for dancing
strap on an ipod for loud music
smoke some bud in the morning
you are on your way
so that is where the flip flops came from along with their amazing simplicity. You can be completely drunk, stoned, worn out from sex and dancing, and you somehow can still get them on your feet.
Is that real?
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